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Apple Event Summary – Sept 2017

September 12, 2017 by Kais

Apple announced few products at their event today, Sept, 12th 2017 at the Steve Jobs Theater. Here is a quick summary of what they have launched. iPhone X, 10th Anniversary Edition iPhone Price 64GB and 256GB, starting at $999 All new design, All screen, borderless 5.8-inch OLED Super Retina screen Wireless charging Face ID, … Read more

Today’s Tip: Developers, How to get rid of curly quotes forever?

October 18, 2019September 3, 2017 by Kais

How many times you had a complier error and you didn’t know why until you figured out you typed a curly quote instead of straight? I’m pretty sure we had all this problem at some point, especially when dealing with JSON files. Well, I recently found this keyboard setting that will always type straight quotes … Read more

What’s New in iOS 11 – For Developers

September 2, 2017 by Kais

Here is a summarized list of what developers should expect from iOS 11, which is coming soon later this month (Sept 2017). Support for drag and drop onscreen, either within the same app or in a different app. Support for augmented and virtual reality. Browsing local and iCloud documents. High performance image analysis. CoreML, which … Read more

What is Mobility, and how different it is from Mobile?

October 18, 2019November 15, 2016 by Kais

Mobility is defined as the convenience of having the information and its social aspect available on the go across different screen sizes and devices. Mobility is totally different that Mobile, and a lot of people mix them up. Think of Mobile as the hardware and the infrastructure, and Mobility as the context that makes everything works together. Businesses usually … Read more

Native vs. Hybrid Mobile Development

November 7, 2016 by Kais

At some point in your career as a mobile developer, you might be asked what do you prefer, building a native or a hybrid mobile app. Below, I summarized the pros and cons of each approach and where each one can be used.

What’s New in iOS 10 – For Developers

June 16, 2016 by Kais

Apple just announced iOS 10 at WWDC. Here are some of the great new features that it will have which you can incorporate within your next app release.

SiriKit:
Now apps can be integrated with Siri to provide services to their users. That includes, Audio/Video Calling, Messages, Payments, Photos.

Integration with the Native Messages app:
Now with iOS 10 you can create extensions that interacts with the native iOS messages apps. Your app can now send messages, media files and interactive messages.

User Notifications:
The User Notifications Framework allows you to handle the delivery of location and remote notifications. Now you can schedule the delivery of the local notifications based on certain time or location.

My Experience with Beacons

June 7, 2016 by Kais

I will start with this question, What is a Beacon? a Beacon is a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device that transmit continuous data/signal over short distances. It uses low energy (from what you can tell from the name) but has similar range as the regular bluetooth. Beacons can be used for different purposes, mostly nowadays they use them in retail stores, hardware store, and museums. Think about it like a lighthouse, where it always broadcast its signal no matter what!